Saadia

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saadia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: happy; Toledo.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 81◐
  • UZUzbekistan1 in 980
  • NGNigeria1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈8.9K ●

across 8 countries

#712 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
247 ●

111K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 17K ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

SadiaLatin · Bangla●2.1M records
СадияCyrillic · Russian●5K records
สะดียาThai · Thai●27 records
사디아Hangul · Korean●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sadia in BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan, US United States and 16 more, Садия in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan, Sadiya in IN India, NG Nigeria and Sa'Diya in UZ Uzbekistan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

happy; Toledo

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Saadia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#53,500,5617.6K rec.—1Sadia103
IN India—87,86428K rec.—34Sadiya87
PK Pakistan#16636,0812.7K rec.—listedSadia92
FR France—15,84012K rec.—1.9KSaadia197
NG Nigeria#51714,63618K rec.—listedSadiya57
UZ Uzbekistan#16813,86148 rec.—6.6KSa'Diya9
GB United Kingdom—6,4053.9K rec.—4Sadia109
RU Russia—5,9391.9K rec.—#884Садия92
US United States—4,64420K rec.1 in 72K4.6KSadia247
ES Spain—2,479△630 rec.1 in 20K2.5KSaadia35
AU Australia—1,5761.5K rec.—1Sadia91
CA Canada—1,3071K rec.—1Sadia85

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French18K27%
  • Arabic11K16%
  • English9.7K15%
  • Spanish9.1K14%
  • 4K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French17,54927%
Arabic10,80316%
English9,69215%
Spanish9,11714%
3,9826%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Saadia is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name13K records spelled Saadia4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Spain, Algeria

    Also written Saâdia, Saàdia, Sa'Adia

  • Spanish given name13K records spelled Saadia6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Morocco

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sàadia, Saâdià, Saâdia, Saadiâ

  • English given name12K records spelled Saadia12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Morocco

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Saâdia, Sa'Adia, Saàdia

  • a separate given name4.3K records spelled Saadia9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Also written Saâdia, Sâadia, Saàdia, Saädia, Saádia

  • Indonesian given name662 records spelled Saadia5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Morocco, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sa'Adia, Saâdia

  • Danish given name337 records spelled Saadia7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Saâdia

  • Persian given name152 records spelled Saadia2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, United States, Pakistan, Syria

    Also written Saâdia

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0102030196019802000202021 · 1964

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Saadia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1954–2025
Yearrecords
195419
195517
195610
19579
19595
19636
196421
196516
196612
196710
19689
196911
197010
19718
19726
19746
197512
197613
19776
197811
19799
19808
198111
198213
198311
198411
198511
198613
198714
198810
198910
199012
199116
199210
199312
199417
19959
199617
199714
199816
19997
20009
20015
200211
20038
20046
20055
200615
20079
20088
200910
20107
20115
20125
201311
20149
201512
20168
201711
20197
20205
20239
202410
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 64 years between 1954–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Saadia Ibn Danan, b. 1401Saadia Azankot, b. 1629Saadia Kobashi, b. 1904Saadia Mandel, b. 1931Saadia Bahader, b. 1936Saadia Marciano, b. 1950Saadia Mosbah, b. 1960Saâdia Azgoun, b. 1969Saadia Himi, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 50 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Saadia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.5K#1,497
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.3K#781
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.5K#9,113
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2018810#3,371
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—188#14,687
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022176—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—175#27,790
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020174#108,494
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—165#28,166
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990150—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—146#6,586
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019136—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 185 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saadia?
We estimate roughly 8.9 thousand people bear Saadia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Saadia have the most bearers?
Saadia is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled sadia.
How common is Saadia compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Saadia is the 5th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
Is Saadia a male or female name?
Saadia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Saadia mean?
Recorded meaning: happy; Toledo
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saadia” — the 5th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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